Tag Archives: norton

Well, it is has been a while since I have heard anything much about Norton as of late, the Commando range didn’t really seem to take off, but the price range I am sure was a massive factor when it came to that, its all about price tagging and making classic Iconic names affordable these […]

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual Hill Climb featuring historic motor racing vehicles held in the grounds of Goodwood House West Sussex, England in late June or early July; the event is scheduled to avoid clashing with the Formula 1 season, enabling fans to see F1 machines as well as cars and motorbikes from motor racing history […]

The Goodwood Revival is a three-day festival held each September at Goodwood Circuit since 1998 for the types of road racing cars and motorcycle that would have competed during the circuit’s original period—1948–1966. All great iconic machines, MV Augusta, Norton, Triumph, BSA, Honda etc, battling it out for a podium finish, the sound, the smell, the excitement is unreal […]

The Bike Shed started back in November in 2011, really as a blog about Anthony “Dutch” Van Somerens Journey as a modern Sports bike Rider into the newer wave of Motorcycles and the scene such as “Cafe Racer, Brat, Tracker etc and wrote about New Bikes and builders new on the scene to show what […]

Today we head off to the OG show once more, but today is open to the public and there will be way more motorcycles turning up, over 100 today to be shown in the rear part of the building, this is an awesome show with cool people. The buildings are amazing, the outer walls are […]

Almost 18 years ago I used to have a readers rides page, showing peoples machines etc, and I thought I would start to feature that again. If you have a bike you would like to show the world, share it with us by emailing some sharp clean images of your Motorcycles and a description of […]

Happy Hump day folks. Sometimes, people ask me all sorts of question on the Motorcycles I work on, now, here is a superb explanation from Hot Bike, that clearly informs you as to the purpose of a Constant mesh Sequential gearbox and how they function. So there you go, today you may of picked up […]

Well, I have seen this footage before but cannot remember for the life of me if I have Blogged about it, thats old age catching up you see. I grew up with Motorcycles and many being just hand me downs or something I have managed to resurrect over time as I simply didn’t have the […]

When you think of Canada, I am sure you have passing images of Mountie’s, Moose, and the Stanley Cup in any order, well, we head on over to Edmonton, named after the City I was Born at in North London, this city has a huge passion for Motorcycles. You know when you are in that […]

Well, just as you think there cant be anything else out there that will make my eyes open wide, my mouth hit the floor and just stand there trembling, but there most definatly is a really cool Museum that I hope to visit sometime, I used to live in Australia and loved the whole place, […]